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seapotty · 14 days

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Nerd from prison who we all hate

#blake's 7 #blakes 7 #kerr avon #dayna mellanby #roj blake #my art

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rkschweiger · 10 months

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any blake's 7 fans

#blake's 7 #blakes 7 #space commander travis #roj blake #fanart

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myblakeseventales · 5 months

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WHO'S YOUR FAVOURITE FICTIONAL REVOLUTIONARY?

#roj blake #blake's 7 #james flint #black sails #enjolras #les mis #tumblr polls

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fanonical · 1 year

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some guy: i can't watch cheesy old shows like classic doctor who. the effects look so fake! there's wobbly walls! it's so dumb

me, grabbing his face and staring into his eyes: aww can the little baby not suspend their disbelief for three seconds? can the little baby not get immersed in a story if he sees a boom mic for three seconds? do you think tv is real?

#Doctor Who #Classic Who #Blake's 7 #Red Dwarf #Star Trek #Star Trek TOS

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hurtcomfortguaranteed · 1 month

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All the best Avon and Blake whump/bromance moments leading up to that climactic admission of trust across the first two seasons of Blake's 7.

#blake's 7 #blake's seven #whump #bromance whump #worry #bromance #protective #gunshot wound #funky space bandage #frienemies #love hate relationship #kerr avon #roj blake #gareth thomas #paul darrow #vintage whump

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oxideblack · 3 months

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#Blake's 7 #Kerr Avon #Roj Blake #Jenna Stannis #Vila Restal #Olag Gan #Cally #art #everyday sketch #sketchbook #pencil #acrylic

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atomic-chronoscaph · 4 months

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Paul Darrow and Glynis Barber - Blake's 7 (1981)

#paul darrow #glynis barber #blake's 7 #80s sci-fi #kerr avon #soolin #terry nation #british sci-fi #80s tv series #1980s #1981

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science70 · 7 months

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Harriet Philpin as Alta Two, Blake’s 7, “Redemption” (UK, 1979).

#science fiction #television #Harriet Philpin #Blake's 7 #Redemption #UK #1979

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redscharlach · 2 months

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Currently working my way through the cast of Blake's 7 in mini form. Here's Avon!

#blake's 7 #blake's seven #kerr avon #paul darrow #art by redscharlach

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estherwordnerd · 7 days

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*following my roommate around* no you don't understand, one minute I was making fun of Avon for being the self-serving sarcastic bitch he is. Like, what a genuinely unlikeable and increasingly unhinged man. Why do they even put up with him. And the next I was wondering who let him sneak into blorbo territory while I wasn't looking because it turns out I did care about him the whole time. I get it now and no one is more surprised and irritated by it than me. I didn't sign up for this but I'm stuck with him now so let me have this ok? Yeah I know he's the worst. Yeah I find his narrative journey compelling anyway. No I can't stop talking about it. I warned you as soon as I could. Sorry.

#blakes 7 #blake's 7 #kerr avon #blake's seven #roj blake #vila restal #jenna stannis #olag gan #personally it was him flirting with Dayna for ten seconds that really flipped the switch in my brain idk why

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weirdchristmas · 30 days

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Servalan. I'm quite sure I can trace my unreasonable horniness for women with super short hair straight back to late night public tv reruns of Blake's 7 in the early 1980s.

#Servalan #Blake's 7 #BBC #70s sci fi #Avon rocks

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seapotty · 1 month

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Dreamed of you

#blake's 7 #kerr avon #roj blake #blakes 7 #my art #from Terminal

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gurumog · 8 months

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Blake’s 7 S02E13 - Star One (1979) Created by Terry Nation BBC Television Dir. David Maloney

Sally Knyvette as Jenna Stannis Michael Keating as Vila Restal Paul Darrow as Kerr Avon

#blake's 7 #star one #avon #vila #jenna #paul darrow #michael keating #sally knyvette #1970s television #1970s science fiction

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georgethem · 1 month

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avon is the most blorbo of all time. he's the sidekick but he stole the show from the titular character. he is a babygirl who loves to commit financial crimes. he's a traitor and he's loyal like a dog. he claims to be logical and emotionless but has the most expressive big brown eyes that show literally every emotion he's feeling. he's socially awkward and all the villains want to fuck him soo bad it makes them look stupid

#blake's 7

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thethirdromana · 1 year

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Kerr Avon's costumes, rated

The sequel to Romana II's costumes, rated, here by popular* request! (*maybe not very popular.)

Screengrabs from here (copied rather than linked per their FAQs). Invaluable record of what Avon actually wears in which episode from here. I haven't included overcoats, spacesuits, or anything Avon doesn't actively choose to wear, like prison clothes. Which means that rating this monstrosity

is left as an exercise for the reader.

I've also not done every single variation on black jackets with studded panels, even when they are technically different black jackets with studded panels, because otherwise we'd be here all night.

As seen in Space Fall and Cygnus Alpha.

Ugh. It's fine. The heights of bonkersness that Blake's 7 costume design would reach are not even really hinted at here. It's a perfectly reasonable outfit - grey shirt, grey trousers, grey tabard-thing. Add a name badge and Avon could be stocking shelves in a fancy supermarket. I'll allow that it does look comfortable, which will not be a theme of much else on this list. 5/10.

As seen in Time Squad.

I don't hate the brown patchwork thing (though brown is rightly Blake's colour), but what's going on with the larger square over his stomach? I feel like he's about to do some welding or something and it's there to protect his clothes, but it is his clothes. Avon only wore this outfit once, and who can blame him? 2/10.

As seen in The Web, Seek-Locate-Destroy, Mission to Destiny, Duel, Project Avalon, Breakdown, and Deliverance.

I think this one may have suffered from the passage of time. Because I look at it and think, why has Avon chosen to dress like an old-fashioned stereo system? But from the vantage point of 1978, I guess Avon had chosen to dress like a decidedly modern stereo system. Look at those rounded corners, he could be a first-gen iPod. And the matching grey of collar and cuffs is a nice touch. None of this answers the question of why he has buttons across his tits, but there are some things that are not for us to know. 8/10.

As seen in Bounty and Orac.

Oooh, green. Green is a nice change. And if you're watching Blake's 7 and you're enjoying those green sleeves, you'd better make the most of them, because other than one very notable exception, this is the last time that Avon wears an outfit that isn't brown, white, black or shades of grey for the entire rest of the series. The rest of it looks a bit like someone's Star Trek Discovery uniform cosplay got out of hand. 6/10, because green.

As seen in Redemption and Killer.

Obviously, this is a classic. And full marks to Paul Darrow for wearing a costume that was literally bought from a sex shop and making it look like something that anyone might wear to their normal day of fighting oppression and engaging in homoerotic tension. 10/10.

As seen in Shadow, Horizon, Gambit, and Children of Auron.

OK fine I threw away the term "classic" too soon, this is the true classic, the time Avon decided to dress as a thermal blanket and then pair that with thigh-high boots. ICONIC. What I love about this is aside from being batshit, it's actually kind of a nice outfit? I imagine that shiny fabric was absolute hell to work with but the gathering at the shoulders means it hangs surprisingly well.

It also gains at least 5 bonus points for featuring in this, one of my all-time favourite Blake's 7 moments:

I wish I could find it as a gif, but you'll just have to join me in pretending these images are moving instead. And in heaving a nostalgic sigh for the era when men were allowed to have normal bodies on TV. 15/10.

As seen in Shadow.

I've tried to go for just one main outfit per episode, because this is already very long and we're only about halfway through. But I had to make an exception for matching! outfits! And all the better for being an outfit that looks great on all three of them. I only wish that Avon could have had some silver boots like Jenna is wearing, I think it would really have completed the look. 9/10.

As seen in Weapon, Pressure Point, Countdown, and Dawn of the Gods.

In some ways, this costume is quite practical. Avon is wearing something not a million miles from bikers' leathers here, and the quilted part of the chest and back would presumably offer him a bit of protection if he got into a fight. But also, it's the colour and style of a brothel sofa, and there's no way in hell he could wear this and retain the ability to lift his arms above his head.

God, I love this show. 10/10.

As seen in Trial, Hostage, Voice From the Past, The Keeper, Star One, Aftermath, and Powerplay.

I have less to say about this because - and I mean this in full tribute to the Blake's 7 costume designers - it's just a nice jacket! It stays in keeping with the design trends we see throughout the series, with panels of different fabrics, and spacewear shiny silver bits, but ultimately you could wear this on the street today and no one would give you a second look. I quite like that about it. 8/10.

As seen Aftermath. (And the loose black shirt in Voice From the Past is similar too).

Maybe this is just my mid-00s goth-adjacent phase showing through, but I am, and always will be, a sucker for a man in this kind of shirt. 8/10, please don't make me justify this further.

As seen in Volcano and Rumours of Death.

The first of many similar black outfits, where I'm going to be selective or this will get tedious very quickly. I think this is the best of them; after this, the 80s started up in earnest, and Avon's shoulders were never allowed to be their natural width again. 9/10.

As seen in The Harvest of Kairos.

My parents haven't been camping in years, but somewhere in the attic they still have an old tent, which lives in a bag that looks a lot like this outfit. As if I needed any more reasons to dislike The Harvest of Kairos. 1/10.

As seen in Ultraworld.

Avon what are you doing. Brown is not your colour. I think I might headcanon that this is Blake's jacket, because aside from the brownness it also seems to be a fair bit too big for Avon. After a couple of seasons of squeezing him into the lobster outfit and other tight leather things, the costume designers seem to have swerved hard into boxy shapes from this point onwards. I disapprove. Honestly, I was going to skip this one except that I love what Dayna is wearing. Wish Avon could have some of that energy. 2/10.

As seen in Death-Watch.

Let's pause for a second, look to the left, and appreciate that Dayna is wearing another fabulous outfit. Now let's take a deep breath, and look at the utter monstrosity that Avon is wearing. Like a matador crossed with a bumper car. 0/10.

As seen in Rescue, Power, Traitor, Stardrive, Animals, Headhunter, Orbit, Warlord, and Blake.

Avon wears some kind of black jacket with studs for nearly all of season D, but I've picked this as the definitive one. I don't know if there's some kind of clever character development thing going on here with how big this costume is, like Avon is expanding into his leadership role, but weighed down by the responsibility too. It could be deliberate, it could just be what fashion was like in the early 80s.

What I do know is that however meaningful this costuming might be, it's not flattering. 5/10, and Avon finishes the series, sadly, no better dressed than he began it.

#blake's 7 #costuming #kerr avon #paul darrow #i'm game for doing Servalan next though tbh i'd prefer Jenna so i can look at some actual colours

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fangirlinglikeabus · 6 months

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#blake's 7 #servalan #del tarrant

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